Insect-trap.



No. 862,617. PATENTED AUG. 6, 1907.

J. A. DIETZ.

INSECT TRAP. Arrmouloxrnnn'rov. a, 1906.

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INSEGT TRAP.

APPLIOATION' FILED NOV. 8, 1906.

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INSE (IT-TRAP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed November 8, 1906. Serial No. 342,562.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH'A. Dm'rz', a citizen of the United States,residing at Kersey, in the county of Elk and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Insect-Traps, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in what may be termed fly-traps,although adapted to entrap any kind of insects. Its objects are toreadily accomplish the aforesaid purposes in a simple, economic andeffective or satisfactory manner, and to these ends it consists ofcertain structural features or instrumentalities substantially ashereinafter fully disclosed and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of myinventionFigure 1 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal section, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section thereof. Fig. 4is an end elevation of the invention.

In the disclosure of my invention, I provide a suitable inclosure orcage 1 comprised of a preferably rectangular frame 2 with a suitableslidable bottom 3 for the ready removal of accumulations and cleaning ofthe cage or trap, said frame having applied or fixed thereto at itssides, ends and top, wire-cloth 4, 5, 6 designating the same at thosepoints, as readily noted. Said wire-cloth end, side and top portions orpanels, are each subdivided or formed, of two members or sections, theopposed edges of the sections of said panels being spaced apart as at 7,8, and 9 respectively, form ing thereby longitudinal or horizontalnarrow openings or passages for the flies or insects; also at the bottomor lower edges of the end and lateral panels are additional likeopenings or passages 10, 11. Along the edges of the intermediate ormiddle entrances or openings of the end and lateral panels, thewire-cloth sections are inturned or extended horizontally inward somedistance as at 12, 13; also along the upper edges of the bottom or loweropenings or entrances of the same panels as also along the upper inneredges of the lateral and end pieces of the frame 2 are suitably fixed inposition inward extended or horizontal strips of wire-cloth 14, 15; thelatter, together with said inturned wirecloth portions, thus formingguards for said openings or passages as against the return of theentrapped flies or insects through the latter, as will be readily noted.

Superposed with relation to the cage 1, is a compartment-cage or annex16, preferably of the outline, as disclosed, the same comprisingend-pieces 17, of practically triangular form, secured to, and havingarranged between them longitudinal lateral pieces 18; the top portion orroof proper 19 being formed of wirecloth suitably laid upon, and securedto the upper edges of said end-pieces and to said lateral pieces, alongtheir outer surfaces. The bottom of said annex or cage 16 designated as20, and which is also of wire- Cloth, is arranged within the planethereof and formed in two sections or panels 21 with the Wire-cloth oftheir opposed longitudinal edges extended upward as at 22 and unitedalong certain portions thereof but with their central portions spreadapart and forming an upward entrance-passage 23 to the annex orcompartment cage 16. Said sections are oppositely inclined from eachother, being only of such inclination or rise, however, as to direct themovement of the flies or insects upward and centrally of the cage ortrap, toward and through the entrance-passage 23 thereof, for entrappingor imprisoning the flies or insects which may pass from the primary cage1, through the longitudinal opening or passage 9 between the wire-clothsections or panels 6 forming the top of said primary cage. In oneendpiece of the trap or cage 16 is provided an opening 24 covered by apivoted flap or valve 24 for the delivery or release therefrom of thecaptured flies or insects when it may be desired to destroy or otherwisedispose of them. Said roof-like constructed cage or annex 16 is held, asagainst displacement, and yet removably in position upon the primarycage 1 by means preferably of upstanding wire-rods 25 suitably fixed inplace to the lateral edges of the upper end-pieces of the cage 1, saidcage or annex 16 having keeper or eye forming strap-plates 27 secured toits end-pieces, upon their outer surfaces, receiving said upstandingwire-rods 25 for the effective retention thereof upon the latter, andwhich will permit of the ready lifting of said cage 16 off the same whenrequired, and the ready replacement thereof after such removal, as willbe readily appreciated.

When it may be desired to remove compartmentcage or annex 16 from cageproper 1 for emptying it, the passage or exit 9 in the latter may beclosed or covered in any suitable way as by placing over said exit orpassage a strip of suitable material which may be fixed flexibly to thecage proper 1. Said cage proper 1, with its compartment-cage or annex16, may be suitably disposed at any required point for entrapping theflies or insects, as in a window, with the lower sash raised, or otherpoint of congregation of the flies &c., the operation of entrapping orcapturing the latter being apparent.

I claim- 1. A device of the character described, embracing a cage properequipped with entrance-openings, and an annex superposed with relationto the aforesaid cage and having its bottom formed of oppositelyinclined sections, with their meeting edges terminating in upstandingportions having formed therebetwecn an upward passage leading into saidannex, said cage proper having a passage in its top opening into thelatter.

2. A device of the character described, embracing a cage proper havingentrance-openings, and an annex provided with keepers and having itsbottom formed of oppositely and upwardly inelined-sections with adjacentupstanding 1O edges eifective to form an upward passage, said cageproper having a passage in its top opening into the latter cage orannex, and said cage proper having upstanding Wire-rods engaging saidkeepers.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two WitDGSSCSlJOSEPH A. DIETZ.

Witnesses Josnrn MOSIER, M. .T. FUENFFINGER.

